GWR 9653 Restaurant Third

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GWRGreat Western Railway 9653 Restaurant Third

GWRGreat Western Railway 9653 is a CollettCharles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941 bow-ended Restaurant Third Open (RTO) carriage. It was built in October 1925 as lot number 1359 to Diagram H32, and initially formed one end of three-car articulated (“Tri-art”) dining set H32. The articulated sets were an attempt to reduce train weights by means of two carriages sharing a single bogie. However the relative lack of flexibility of this arrangement, and the introduction of more powerful locomotives, led to the sets being rebuilt as three single units in 1937.

9653 later saw DepartmentalRolling stock used for the railway’s own functions (engineering etc.) rather than for general passenger or goods traffic. use as No DW 150032 in the second WR Control Train. It was preserved in 1980 and is part of the National Railway Museum’s National Collection. It first arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway from York in 1981 along with sister coach 9654. As of 2016 it remains on loan to the SVRSevern Valley Railway, and is regularly used as part of the Severn Valley Limited dining set. It is finished in GWRGreat Western Railway 1934-42 livery featuring the ‘shirt-button’ roundel.

See also

List of carriages

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References

Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey
SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition

Links

9653 on vintagecarriagestrust.org